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EMC—more than just a storage provider. right time and in the right place. If you
When your business is ready for new or have not realized all of these possibilities,
additional storage products, make sure then it’s time to talk to EMC.
you look at the big picture before you
EMC does more than spout storage speci-
make this important investment. Are you fications. We take the time to discover
realizing all the benefits that the right exactly what your business is about and
storage solution can deliver? The right how we can help you use our products
storage solution improves the way you to implement a way of doing business
use your information daily. It opens new that you never thought possible. We can
avenues of information gathering and meet your need for distributed storage
analyzing. It gives you the tools to gener- systems with our EMC CLARiiON® full
ate new ideas for reaching your customers Fibre Channel arrays, including the
and delivering the right products at the EMC CLARiiON FC5700.
High performance, capacity, and flexibility
to meet all your storage needs.
Fibre Channel—the latest storage continuous data access and availability. Fibre Channel enhances connectivity.
technology. Industry analysts point to Fibre Channel The EMC FC5700 array’s full Fibre Chan-
If your business requires high perfor- as the optimal storage technology—for nel technology greatly simplifies cabling
mance for I/O-intensive applications, the now and in the future. EMC CLARiiON issues. Built-in Fibre Channel hubs allow
EMC CLARiiON FC5700 is an ideal fit Fibre Channel technology is unsurpassed. connectivity to dual-server clusters without
for online transaction processing Because of its exceptional data through- using external hubs. The arrays can be con-
(OLTP), messaging, PC-LAN servers, put, storage expandability, and connectiv- nected to a Fibre Channel switch, an exter-
file servers, software development, deci- ity features, EMC CLARiiON Fibre nal hub, or an MIA (Media Interface
sion support, and many data warehous- Channel is a proven technology for meet- Adapter) for optical connections, thereby
ing applications. The EMC CLARiiON ing today’s business requirements. reducing implementation costs.
FC5700 delivers the advantage of
The FC5700 disk arrays fully exploit Fibre Cluster expansion for application
superior hardware, software, integra-
Channel technology, delivering both high redundancy.
tion, and services, in addition to a high
data throughput and high I/O perfor- EMC CLARiiON Fibre Channel RAID
level of investment protection. EMC
mance. The FC5700 boasts performance arrays in a clustered system environment
CLARiiON full Fibre Channel products
of 120MB per second throughput and enhance performance and data availability.
bring new levels of performance, modu-
22,000 I/Os per second. FC5700 disk Servers can be removed, replaced, or added,
larity, connectivity, flexibility, and man-
arrays support up to 100 disks (9, 18, or and additional FC5700 subsystems can be
ageability to your storage environment.
36GB), for a total of 3.6 terabytes of added, all with non-disruptive scaling.
The EMC CLARiiON FC5700 is the next storage. EMC CLARiiON arrays provide
High availability and data integrity.
generation of “end-to-end” fibre stor- the highest flexibility for heterogeneous
Software reliability and a robust hardware
age. Other industry storage arrays may system environments by supporting
design are the keys to EMC CLARiiON
simply offer a Fibre Channel host inter- UNIX (Sun Solaris, HP HP-UX, IBM AIX),
high-availability storage systems. The
face, while still relying on SCSI-based stor- Novell NetWare, and Microsoft Windows
FC5700’s software, coupled with a redun-
age inside the disk array. With EMC NT platforms.
dant design, provides an unparalleled stor-
CLARiiON arrays, you receive the power
Modular architecture. age system architecture for data integrity.
and benefit of full Fibre Channel technol-
Today’s sophisticated software applica-
ogy, from host connection to individual And, EMC CLARiiON disk arrays’ patented
tions demand storage performance tailored
internal disk drives of the array. technology provides two additional levels
to an application. The EMC CLARiiON
of data integrity beyond other RAID prod-
To keep your business fully protected building-block architecture allows you to
ucts: end-to-end checking of the data inside
against planned or unplanned disruption scale your systems easily and cost effec-
the disk array and parity coherence. End-
to your valuable information, the FC5700 tively, to storage requirements that meet
to-end checksum provides a mechanism
high-availability disk array is completely your needs today and in the future.
against data corruption, even after adverse,
redundant with no single point of failure. Through the EMC Enterprise Storage Net-
unexpected events occur. Data parity
The FC5700 array’s redundant architec- work,TM CLARiiON can be part of your
coherence protects against the possible
ture includes everything you need for overall EMC E-InfostructureTM.
inaccuracies that can be created during
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